The sharp detective work of area youngsters helped bring a teen boy safely home recently after he fell prey to a smooth-talking Internet predator. Although the teen’a fictional character called Zackman’was part of an interactive computer game, his pretend dilemma helped Sashabaw Middle School seventh-graders learn some very real lessons about staying safe online. Students […]
A 44-year-old woman spent part of Friday morning trapped under the ice cream truck she was driving after a tire blew out and caused the vehicle to careen across the road and flip on its side. The woman was transported to Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc with serious injuries, including trauma caused when her leg […]
A River Day 2007 project attracted about two-dozen people carrying rakes, shovels and buckets brimming with community spirit to downtown Clarkston Saturday to help with a new Watershed Group project. The group installed a new garden, set up an informative native-plant display, and even made a few varieties of natives available to local gardeners. River […]
Michelle Tynan believes a certain amount of risk is necessary to her art’and her life. So, although The Clarkston News mural is by far the largest project she’s yet tackled’the wall measures 3000 square feet’Tynan knows she’s on the right track. Tynan, an Independence Township resident, had her eye on the building for several weeks […]
The Clarkston Police Department expects to officially reclaim its midnight shift and resume a 24-hour presence in the city beginning at 11p.m. June 30. After nearly six-and-a-half years of outsourcing midnight services, the city council voted unanimously to cancel a subcontract with Independence Township for midnight policing provided by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office. Returning […]
Eleven resumes from applicants interested in serving as Clarkston’s next police chief had arrived in the city mailbox as of Monday, and will be turned over to a committee appointed to begin the selection process. Advertisements were placed with two sources, said City Manager Art Pappas, including the Michigan Municipal League. Resumes will be accepted […]
The Clarkston Watershed group hopes interested volunteers will show up in the city’s downtown area Saturday, June 9 with shovels, trowels and gloves to help install a new garden in celebration of River Day. The group will work between 9 a.m.-1 p.m. to install native plants and flowers along the Mill Pond parking lot located […]
A Springfield Township man was arraigned in 52-2 District Court on two counts of aggravated indecent exposure by a sexually delinquent person after he was allegedly seen exposing and fondling himself inside Independence Township Library last week. Andrew John Hamilton, 23, was confronted by a male library staff member on May 20 after two 14-year-old […]
Every Thursday, Paul Ulrich climbs into his car and steers north on M-15 to Genesys Hospice, where he spends his day visiting with the terminally ill. It’s a volunteer endeavor he began some two years ago, six months after his wife Mary Ann passed away. ‘We lived the American dream,? said Ulrich, 71, a retired […]
Holly Stewart and Anthony Fuller were among several hundred Clarkston High School students who went to Depot Park to take pictures and meet up with friends and family before prom last Thursday. Photo by Laura Colvin